Detective Lt. Dave Robicheaux investigates a murder linked to a New Orleans mobster and a Civil War film's co-producer, while also reopening a 35-year-old cold case involving a black man's murder after a new corpse is found in the Atchafalaya Swamp.

In the Electric Mist
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, a detective unravels a complex web of dark secrets and supernatural occurrences while probing a series of gruesome murders, a decades-old lynching, and a conspiracy involving deceitful corporate figures.